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Wednesday, 2 November 2011

Fall Swap: Veterok

This was my first time participating in the book swap.
Since it's October, I decided to make a classic hardcover sketchbook with a bit
of seasonal creepy twist. The book is sized 15.5 x 11 cm (approximately
postcard size), with pages of cream coloured Canson Mi-Teintes drawing paper.
The headbands are sewn with black and ivory white buttonhole silk on a leather
core. For the cover, I used two vintage portraits that I was gifted with a
couple of years ago. The portraits are glued and then sewn on the bookcloth
which I have dyed in shades of rusty orange and turned upside down to reveal
the crumpled texture of the backing paper. I couldn't resist doing some
additional smudging with ink.

This design is much like the ones that I sell in my Etsy
shop, and I hope PrairiePeasant will find it useful, either as a sketchbook or
as a journal for daily activities and observations. --Elina of Veterok

Veterok's handbound books and journals from one artist to others are in her shop here.